The Captured Gazelle Poems of Tahir Ghani Kashmiri

Every moment it seeks to slip from the mind?s nook Fresh poetic meaning is a gazelle to be captured The Captured Gazelle is an elegant and lucent translation of the poems of the seventeenth-century Persian poet Mulla Tahir Ghani better known as Ghani Kashmiri. Eulogized by poets such as Mir and Iqbal Ghani is an outstanding representative of sabk-e-Hindi or the ?Indian style? in Persian poetry which became a hallmark of the Mughal?Safavid literary culture. The introduction situates Ghani against his unique background in which Iranian and Indian poetic cultures came together to create a glorious literary age in Kashmir while the translations capture Ghani in his wide spectrum of moods?satirical playful self-pitying pessimistic mystically resigned?bringing alive his wit and ingenuity in a modern idiom without losing hold on the tone.